“When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him.” PeopleGivingIdeasHappensRealizingSpecialSubjectsProjectsPhotographyConceptsPhotographerMore TimeSomething SpecialThere Comes A Time Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.” WayMomentsPhotographyPhotograph Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.” PersonsPhotographyPhotographer Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.” PeopleBelieveKindI BelieveEconomyCommunicationPhotographyEconomicsPhotographerHumanitarianDocumentariesSociologyDocumentary Photography Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.” PeopleCommunityPhotographyPhotographer Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today, my big hope is that they understand. That they understand that the population is quite big enough, that they must be informed that they must have economic development, that they must have social development, and must be integrated into all parts of the world.” MenWorldHumansLooksEnoughProblemBigsTodaySocialUnderstandingRaceEconomicDevelopmentPhotographyPhotographerPopulationHuman RaceIntegratedSocial DevelopmentEconomic Development Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.” KnowsNeedsGivingHumansPersonsTwoImportantThreeAcceptingTeachGroupsFrontsProtectPhotographyAll ThingsPhotographerIncrediblesMe AloneProtect You Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.” LittlesBitsPhotographyLittle BitPhotographerIcebergTip Of The Iceberg Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.” PeopleKnowsGivingMomentsSufferingSeeingPhotographyPhotographerPhotographCherish Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.” WayGivingIdeasEndsStoriesShowsPlanetsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographInnocenceFactoriesIncentivesGarbageDegradationDepositsPristine Author:Sebastiao Salgado